Kommentare zu: No happy endings, but life at the brim.http://manafonistas.de/2018/03/09/no-happy-endings-but-life-full-at-the-brim/
on life, music etc beyond mainstreamMon, 19 Mar 2018 22:02:47 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Von: Michael Engelbrechthttp://manafonistas.de/2018/03/09/no-happy-endings-but-life-full-at-the-brim/#comment-28242
Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:54:35 +0000http://manafonistas.de/?p=124077#comment-28242Everyone who wants to see LOST shouldn‘t read this BEFORE having seen the last episode of the final season.

I always thought that you have your most indluential TV experiences at quite young age, but the revolution that has been televised during the last two, three decades (starting with Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks and The X-Files) proved me wrong.

In 1972 a young British composer was in the South of France. He had eaten bad fish and became very ill and then had a recurring vision of a hotel where everything was scanned by an electronic eye. Several rooms: in one room two people were fucking, kind of cold fucking.

In another room full of electronic equipment a composer was listening through earphones, but all was silence. Next day the young man felt better, went to the beach sunbathing, and suddenly a poem poped into his head. The first lines:

„I`m the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random.“

Years later, I met Simon Jeffes in London and he told me the story of the poem. It was all about the unexpectedness, the unknown, the killing of dead patterns and dead rituals, the irrationality, and how that makes life precious.

There was a bit much Christmas, Opera and Martin Luther recently on the blog, even critical words on a fantastic Krautrock selection … so this had had to be said to put things in balance :)

In fact this can work as psychedelic coffeine.

By the time you‘re reading this, I‘m in California. To be more precise, the great crime novel I‘m just reading sends me there, and it‘s burning down the hills in Ross Macdonald‘s „The Underground Man“ from 1971.